Hi,
I was wondering if anyone is able to diagnose the reason for a sound problem I've been having using the aformentioned PCI-E soundcard. I am running Windows XP with the latest sound card drivers having disabled on-board sound in the BIOS before installing the new card. I have 512 MB RAM and an nVidia GeForce 6200 GFX card, and a cheap 5.1 speaker system.
What happens is that when I'm playing either Command & Conquer 3 or Red Alert 3 (minimum video settings), after a seemingly random amount of time the sound will freeze, it won't be playing continuously, rather it will alternate in short bursts playing through one speaker then the next in a continuous loop. The game itself is otherwise unaffected, I can play on as before only there will be no additional sounds. Even if I quit to the desktop the sound will play on, and the only 2 ways I can get it to stop are restarting the machine or changing the playback mode on the sound card (the Fatality card has 3 'modes' optimised for different uses of the card; changing the mode resets the card I guess, though this problem happens on all 3 modes regardless of additional settings like EAX on/off).
So, is this problem to do with the soundcard do you think, or is there another reason this may be happening - not enough RAM/PSU wattage for example, or if anyone owns these games maybe they've had something similar?
Any insight greatly appreciated,
- tom -
I was wondering if anyone is able to diagnose the reason for a sound problem I've been having using the aformentioned PCI-E soundcard. I am running Windows XP with the latest sound card drivers having disabled on-board sound in the BIOS before installing the new card. I have 512 MB RAM and an nVidia GeForce 6200 GFX card, and a cheap 5.1 speaker system.
What happens is that when I'm playing either Command & Conquer 3 or Red Alert 3 (minimum video settings), after a seemingly random amount of time the sound will freeze, it won't be playing continuously, rather it will alternate in short bursts playing through one speaker then the next in a continuous loop. The game itself is otherwise unaffected, I can play on as before only there will be no additional sounds. Even if I quit to the desktop the sound will play on, and the only 2 ways I can get it to stop are restarting the machine or changing the playback mode on the sound card (the Fatality card has 3 'modes' optimised for different uses of the card; changing the mode resets the card I guess, though this problem happens on all 3 modes regardless of additional settings like EAX on/off).
So, is this problem to do with the soundcard do you think, or is there another reason this may be happening - not enough RAM/PSU wattage for example, or if anyone owns these games maybe they've had something similar?
Any insight greatly appreciated,
- tom -
